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Friday, October 14, 2016

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

This is America

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/10/07/pantsuit-power-flashmob-video-for-hillary-clinton-two-women-170-dancers-no-police/

Monday, September 26, 2016

turkish delight

wide-brimmed straw hats in summer

jasmine pearl tea

eyewear

outdoor fruit and vegetable markets

tepertős pogácsa

freshly ground peanut butter

baking bread

being in my body

pockets

Széchenyi Fürdő

my mother's dumplings

rocking chairs

scarves

giving books I love to people I think might love them too

The Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

diners

grandma Kelley's rice casserole

home made play dough

Le Mans Hall

midwives

baking muffins

Spencer Tunick

wool socks, knee-high, with stripes in the winter

clowns

"Coin-Operated Boy" by the Dresden Dolls

bread and butter

pumpkin

cooking split-pea soup

democracy

church bells

Gellért Fürdő

African chicken and peanut soup from the New England Soup Factory

martini with blue cheese stuffed olives

1059 Riverside

singing the ABC's as a lullaby

gesztenyepüré

Greek yogurt with honey, in Greece

sneaking away from a sleeping baby

sneaking back into my bed where my four and five-year-olds are tangled up, deeply breathing

bodza

Book Club

Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins

Rome

sunflowers

avocados

Indigo Girls

dandelions

sleep

Warren Dunes State Park

french fries

blue

the fact that baking bread is so simple

clean pressed sheets

V-Day

walking by a lilac bush in bloom

holding hands

playgrounds

NPR

Prairie Home Companion

PBS

hard wood floors

freshly squeezed ABC juice--apple, beet, carrot

handmade afghans

coffee

Jeune Homme Nu Assis au Bord de la Mer, by Jean- Hippolyte Flandrin

marching bands

my clever, funny friend

roasted chestnuts

Rachel flodnija

birdie sing in the tree, woo woo woo, wee wee wee, I love you and you love me

Henszlmann Imre utca, 5

cuckoo clocks

soft-boiled eggs in egg cups

potluck dinners

Kelet Kávézó

7-year-old Leo with missing front teeth

tabasco sauce

massage

Amanda Palmer

the truth

Anna Moschovakis

[The challenge: to start]

Monday, June 13, 2016

America's Moral #Pulse

More love. More vulnerability. More kissing.

#SpencerTunick photo

#Orlando

America's Moral #Pulse

#LoveIsLove

Thursday, April 07, 2016

Claire Wahmanholm

by: Claire Wahmanholm

Lullaby with Daughter Cells

Embedded,      the sleeping body is ship and shipwreck, reef, fish den,
oyster nest,                    once my own anemone, once a wish,
transmission of ten thousand trillion divisions,            so almost infinite,
so infinitely far from it.
                                          Beneath the skin,      repetition churns
its whirls of fingerprints            and strands of future selves,
constructing endless daughters, endless spindles, endless paths
into the woods.
                           Sleep passes for safety,           but is only a curse’s deferral,
never its breaking.            Your body’s already a whir, was always
an engine, gendered and generative, her from the first. All I gave
you was a pair of points. Sleep between them  for as long as you can.

Given

A point is that which has no part
—Euclid, Elements, Book I

A given
is always

a point
of departure,

a puncture,
origin of

a wound,
some newness.

For example,
this given:

that points
are partless,

when really
they’re couple-

numbered, binary;
the way,

no matter
how fast

it flies,
a bluebird’s

blue can
never outstrip

its bird,
or butter

drain from
its cup,

rattle shed
its snake.

What would
it do,

that bird—
unblue, unselved,

blanched on
winter’s branch,

absent against
its white?

Without you,
I’m only

the idea
of flight.

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

perspective

There are two parenting styles at the playground. One views a slide as uni-directional. The other style is espoused by a parent whose kid challenges such one-way linear thinking.

My kid proved today that there is more than one way to shimmy down a fire pole.

#videobyhissister
#letthemfail(fall)
#blesshissoul

#passthewine

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

One Billion Rising Budapest 2016: Theater and Dance (video)

This year's event featured the Break the Chain dance followed by an innovative theater piece created to explore sexual consent.

The play focusses on the idea that sexual violence is often committed by acquaintances who use other methods than physical coercion.

A theatre performance, website (www.nane.hu/kerszteat), and short films send messages to perpetrators, victims and the society:

no means no, and only yes means yes.

View the dance below:

#rise4revolution
#vday
#kerszteat
#Budapest
#breakthechain

Friday, February 12, 2016

RISE DANCE DISRUPT! BY EVE ENSLER

1 FEBRUARY 2016 > V-DAY

RISE DANCE DISRUPT!

I think we must live now on the edge of incomprehensible madness, refusing to give up

and refusing to pretend. Dancing on the precipice of annihilation while passionately

encouraging and welcoming the new paradigm. This is most difficult in a world, in

a system that has thoroughly indoctrinated us in a refusal to think, in the sound bite,

in yes and nos, likes and unlikes, with us or against us pathology, in idiotic,

consumable brandable, reductionist absolutes. To be an enthusiastic absurdist requires

embracing ambiguity, insecurity, and it means looking at the predicament we are in

head on. It means leaping and assuming you will fall, dancing in the chaotic

impossible passionate possible.

So we must learn the art and practice of disruption. We must release the tentacles

of our false securities and interrupt the world as we know it. We must assume that

anywhere we live or anything we are doing can change or disintegrate on a dime and

we must practice changing and letting it go. Living as if there is no future but the one

we are creating. Nothing guaranteed but our willingness to live as pioneers of a new

consciousness and way. And we must become disrupters. That is the power of creative

resistance. Interrupting business as usual, taking stands that forfeit our acceptance or

economic elevation, risking disapproval and controversy, participating in actions that

loosen our grip on the suicidal givens and push the tyrants to fall. Disrupters, fighting

and dancing with all our might for life over comfort.

– Eve Ensler

Thursday, February 04, 2016

Laugh: Cannonball Ice Dude

so much to love about this video

#cannonballicedude
#haha